Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh & Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano Named 2024 ACC Swimmers Of The Meet

2024 ACC SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) and Chris Guiliano (Notre Dame) have been named the 2024 ACC Championship Most Priceless swimmers on Saturday night. Each athletes claimed three particular person occasion wins all through the week and clocked record-setting occasions within the course of.

Walsh claimed the 50 free (20.57), 100 fly (48.25), and 100 free (45.16) titles, breaking the NCAA and American information in all three races. She posted the 50 free file twice on the identical day, touching in 20.77 throughout prelims earlier than decreasing it to twenty.57 to win the ACC title. Along with these file swims, she led off Virginia’s victorious 400 medley relay with a 48.10 backstroke cut up, breaking her personal NCAA and American file (48.25) from final 12 months’s NCAA Championships.

Walsh additionally helped the Cavaliers to a relay sweep, as she contributed to the profitable 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay, and 400 medley relay. The 200 free relay (1:23.63) broke the NCAA file and represents the quickest time in historical past, and she or he cut up the primary ever sub-20 relay cut up (19.95) on the 2nd leg. The 800 free relay was additionally historic, as they scared Stanford’s legendary NCAA file from 2017, which featured Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel, amongst others. Walsh led-off that relay in 1:40.23, making her the third quickest 200 freestyler in historical past, earlier than the relay touched within the 2nd quickest time ever.

Guiliano swept the three shortest freestyle occasions on the docket, together with his first win coming within the 50 free (18.57). He gained the 200 free later within the meet, matching his 1:31.16 time from his day one lead-off on Notre Dame’s 4th place 800 free relay. His clear swims of the meet got here within the 100 free, the place he posted THREE flat-start 40-second swims in at some point. He broke the ACC file in prelims (40.84), earlier than resetting the mark en path to gold later within the day (40.62), and ending with a 40.87 lead-off cut up on Notre Dame’s victorious 400 free relay.

North Carolina senior Aranza Vazquez Montano was named the ladies’s Most worthy diver, as she walked away with gold medals within the 1-meter and 3-meter occasions. Vazquez Montano additionally gained the award final 12 months. Pitt junior Cameron Money was named the lads’s diver of the meet, as he claimed gold within the 3-meter and platform diving occasions.

Gretchen Walsh At The 2024 ACC Championships:

50 Freestyle — 20.57 (1st), Quickest All-Time
100 Freestyle — 45.16 (1st), Quickest All-Time
100 Butterfly — 48.25 (1st), Quickest All-Time
200 Freestyle Relay — 1:23.63 (1st), Quickest All-Time

Document: 50 Freestyle — 19.95 (2nd Leg of Relay), Quickest All-Time Cut up

400 Freestyle Relay — 3:07.34 (1st), 45.40 2nd leg cut up
800 Freestyle Relay — 6:46.28 (1st), #2 All-Time

Document: 200 Freestyle — 1:40.23 (Relay Lead-Off), #3 All-Time

400 Medley Relay — 3:22.49 (1st)

Document: 100 Backstroke — 48.10 (Relay Lead-Off), Quickest All-Time

Chris Guiliano At The 2024 ACC Championships:

50 Freestyle — 18.57 (1st)
100 Freestyle — 40.62 (1st)
200 Freestyle — 1:31.16 (1st)
200 Freestyle Relay — 1:15.59 (4th), 18.63 lead-off cut up
400 Freestyle Relay — 2:45.58 (1st), 40.87 lead-off cut up
800 Freestyle Relay — 6:14.93 (4th), 1:31.16 lead-off cut up
400 Medley Relay — 3:03.26 (third), 40.17 anchor leg